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I'm only 46, but I remember sitting in line, as a toddler, for over an hour waiting to get gas with MommaFree. For a 2 1/2-3 yr old, that was an eternity.
Our children, when they're adults and parents of their own, are gonna remember th days when $2.50/gal was cheap.
My kids can't believe that when I started driving, gas was .89¢/gal, a pack of smokes cost me $1.50, and a bottle of Coke was .95¢. They can't believe I could fill up my car, a '74 Pontiac Le Mans GT (20 gal tank gas guzzling land yacht), buy a pack of smokes and a Coke and still have change left over.
My son filled up the tank in my Ford Explorer the other day. He paid over $80. That was almost 1/4 of his paycheck. And he works full time for Boar's Head.
25 cents when i was a kid. double pack of twinkies 13 cents.
Oh my - She's a Cutie!
Why are we talking about gas prices. I thought this thread was about a time when American women weren't LAND WHALES!
In 1976 my family took a long trip across the country. Gas was 32 cents, but when we found ourselves running low in the middle of nowhere on the way to the Grand Canyon, my dad was forced to fill up at the only station around for 75 cents a gallon. My dad complained about that all the way back to PA.
I hear ya.
In NJ in 2003 mind you, gas was 1.64. I moved to Florida and it was over $2.30. 3 years later back in NJ it was approaching $4. It ended up getting up over$5. This artificial gas rise made it seem like $2.50 was cheap.
And that's how they get you. Soon we'll be thankful for $3.50
We lost the advantage when they passed the gas tax under Chubsy Ubsy. Geez...we even had to vote on a public question ~ Do you want the gas tax to actually go to the road improvements it was designated for?
Um...yes. Why do you ask?
Dat's the fake news. An attendant would pump the gas, wash the windshield and check the oil while flirting with such a pretty girl for that price back then!
True. Self-serve was much later.
I disagree. In 1978 as a sophomore in college, I had a speech class and I demonstrated how to pump your own gas. It was just beginning to show up at gas stations, but there certainly were self pumps by the mid 70s. And the clothes and hair are certainly mid-late 70s.
Ok you Pedes, what car is that?
At first, was thinking it was an AMC. But maybe an early Cutlass?
Bell Bottom Jeans!
And a smokin hot cutie!
Wrong. I sold self-serve gas in 1974. There were still regular gas stations, but they were starting to hurt even then.
I stand corrected.
It actually was much later in NJ, as the oil companies had them pass a law against self service. I had people with NJ tags on their car sit at the pumps and blow their horns. They would either drive off mad or come in the store, I'd really make them mad, and they'd still drive. I'd tell them it's self service. Pump it yourself. If you can't, then go up the street to a full service station and pay a lot more.
This was the true test for an attendant -- 56 chevy
https://youtu.be/H8tMdubPWJA
Reminds me of this comic my kid showed me. Car & gas starts at 16:49
The whole thing is pretty funny.
My first job out of high school was an attendant at a full service gas station.
It was the last one in town.
There's a station by me that charges a good bit over every other station around, but their attendants are pretty young girls. They sell gas all day long.
Some stations had female attendants to pump gas. Kek
I remember seeing it as low as 19¢ during gas wars between service stations. And yes they were "service stations" then as apposed to gas stations or filling stations now. They would ask f you wanted them to check the air pressure in your tires, check your oil and wash the windshield, all for free as a courtesy. It didn't matter if you filled up or got $2 dollars worth.
When was the last time someone lifted the hood on your car and you didn't get charged a 175.00 diagnostic fee?
everyone is a fucking filthy scammer these days. i dont trust ANY business. i just do everything myself tbh
Hah! I drive 40 minutes one way to get my oil changed at a shop that was referred by a GF who verified their integrity. They take good care of me and my car, so yeah...I'll wait there while they do what needs doing.
Otherwise, especially as a woman, it's a crap shoot to find an honest mechanic.
I worked at a gas station back in high school and did all those things.
Love the username! UC was a hell of a good book. I have 2 copies I bought when it first came out.
Thanks. Took awhile to decide on it. A neighbor loaned it to me. Under threat of bodily injury if I didn’t return it as they’re over $200 now and not in print. Can be found online as PDF for free.
Theyre banned in Canada.
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Uploads/129/Media/Unintended_Consequences.pdf
Good deal. Every freedom loving person should read it. I've reread it several times through the years.
18.9¢
It's pictures like this that absolutely debunk time travel. This year would be empty of people who have left for a better "time" I know my ass would go back.
That's the same as all the women wanting abortion, saying: "You just want to take away my right to choose!"
Bitch it isn't even about you. Stop making everything about you. It's about a baby's life.
Or in this case, nobody gives a shit about race this or that. They want to be able to put gas in their cars. Stop making everything about you.
Hey back when I could was dishes and still afford to buy a house, wow, what crazy times.
Is that a Pontiac? Remember Pontiac? Remember having choices?
"We are driving excitement." I used to carpool to work in one.
Poor Old Nxxxxx That Isn't A Cadillac!
Now do Chrysler.
Since that's the replacement.
I had one back then, but it was about 8 or 9 years old. $400 didn't buy much of a car, even that far back.
It looks like an early 70s Chevy Nova. Judging by the taillights, maybe 1974. I could be wrong though, and often am. 🙂
Edit: Looked up average gas prices in the 70s... 37 cents/gallon in spring '73, 53 cents/gallon in spring '74, so this photo was possibly from that time frame.
NOVA.
En Espanol, No Va = No Go.
Just sayin...
NAH! long ago is remembering Gas wars in the 50's when they gave Glasses with a fill-up and we use to ride our bikes over the hoses the rang a bell when a car pulled in for gas. the Gas guy came out and washed your windows after he pumped the gas.
Those were the days when putting on your brights was a button on the floor.
Fuel prices are a small fraction of how much better those times were.
gas will NEVER go below 3 dollars a gallon EVER again. mark my fucking words
That’s what we said before President Trump made it happen.
I remember those days well. I was ignorant of all this foolishness and much happier.
Most of this foolishness didn't exist back then.
I remember $0.29^9 when I was a kid. And there was no self-service.
I remember prices this low. $8-10 to fill up with full-service too - and maps.
I also remember stations struggling to add the '1' as the third digit when it finally topped 99.9. It wasn't just the signs - the analog pumps couldn't easily be reconfigured for them back in the day.
Now, the taxes on each gallon are more than the total cost of a gallon in this picture.
I remember when gas was 19 cents a gallon.
Price in dimes now.
I remember when I got out of the military in the late 80's and got married, we travelled cross country and gas was about $1 a gallon, and I was complaining to my new bride that "gas was 75 cents when I was a kid!"
Even this was expensive for the time, I remember the late 90s filling up my tiny jeep on 90c/gal!
Would have been cheaper than that in the late 90s if we didn't have $0.4* in tax per gallon then.
yeah, but wasn't this when carter froze the price of gas and you had mile-long lines to fill up the tank?
not sure which is better at this point, frankly, but at least we have the gas available, i guess?
I remember gas wars when I was a kid in Houston,TX. Stations were FULL service and gas was selling less than 20 cents at some stations. Precious memories back in the late 50's!
I don't remember them this low, but in the late 80s as a teenager I do remember gas being in the 60s. It was nothing to grab coins from the ash tray in order to buy gas.
1987, went to work, on the way there stopped for gas. Pump said 89 cents. I was so pissed. That same gas was 59 cents just the day before. It never looked back.
Hemrick's Super Thrift
$4.35 Regular - $4.59 Premium
The 2022 photo will have another 9.
looks like 1980.....i remember pumping gas at 42.9 cents into my Honda Z50.
Gas where I lived was 52.9 in late 1974. It went down to 47.9 in early 1975, and then started its relentless rise.